೨೯೯ ಅಮೇರಿಕನ್ ಡಾಲರ್ (೧೨೦೦೦ ರುಪಾಯಿ) ಕೊಡಿ ಮತ್ತು ಕೊಳ್ಳಿರಿ ಚಿಕ್ಕದೊಂದು ಲ್ಯಾಪ್-ಟಾಪ್. ಕೆಲವು ವರ್ಷಗಳ ಮುಂಚೆ ಸಿಂಪ್ಯೂಟರ್ ಅಂತ ಹೆಸರಿನ ಒಂದು ಕಂಪನಿಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಹಲವಾರು ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಗಳು ಮೇಲೆ ಮೇಲೆ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಪ್ರಕಟಿಸಿದ್ದು ನಿಮಗೆ ನೆನಪಿರಬಹುದು.
ಹೊಸಾ ಪೀಳಿಗೆಯ ಈ ಯಂತ್ರಗಳು ನಮ್ಮ ಜನರಿಗೆ ಹೇಳಿ ಮಾಡಿಸಿದಂಥ ಸಾಧನ. ಆದರೆ ಯಾರೂ ಇದರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಬರೆದಿದ್ದು ಕಾಣಲ್ಲಾ. ಹಲೋ?
After hearing quite a bit about Mallige Idli from my Dad, I decided to check it out during a visit to India.
Mallige == Jasmine in Kannada. Idli of course is a delicacy, usually made from Rice and Urad Dal (ಉದ್ದಿನ ಬೇಳೆ).
Mallige Idli is slightly different. It seems to resemble Appam popular in Kerala. It’s rumored to be made from Poha (ಅವಲಕ್ಕಿ). If you have the full recipe, please do share.
I have a new headache now. Well, apart from the sorrow of Ms Rai deciding to getting married without checking with me first, they seem to have decided to hurt my page rank by hiring an astrologer attacking my corner of the namespace.
“This year is going to be very good and productive for him
in which new developments are seen,” astrologer Arun Sharma
told NDTV channel. “Even for Aishwarya her stars are strong.
But she will have to look after her dietary habits.”
Those of you with the infinite patience to put up with all the flashy ads on samachar.com and other assorted desi news sites which continually test the limits, Just Samachar might be a welcome change.
Just imagine: you walk into a bank and open an account with a check from another bank. The bank opens the account with zero balance, takes 21 days to cash the check and then charges you INR 561 (USD 13) for not maintaining a minimum balance!
Sounds too stupid to be real? Why would any bank want to do this to a new customer? This is exactly what ICICI bank does. The customer service folks are either so dense that they can’t understand a simple situation such as this or have no authority to credit $13 to a customer (or both). Either way, the typical response is a cut-n-paste email message repeating their policy on minimum balance.
I would fully expect other Indian banks to have worse (or non-existent) customer service. But it baffles me how/why people put up with this kind of crap.
ತುಂಬಾ ಸಂತೋಷ ಆಯ್ತು ಓದಿ. ಪ್ರೊ. ಜಿವಿ ಅವರ ಪ್ರಿಸಮ್ ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್-ಕನ್ನಡ ನಿಘಂಟು
The headline in today’s economic times screams - some IIT guy got a $100k offer and quotes another guy as saying “IIMs are for second rate IITians”. I can’t seem to find a better example of the vulgarity I was alluding to in my earlier posts and the extent to which Indian media stoops to cater to the starry eyed kids who want a decent life and ready to pay Rs 10 to read this kind of crap.
Somewhere down on line 43 you’ll find that the average salary is only around Rs 600k ($13k). I tend to think that the guys who are trained in computer science are doing a big disservice to their profession and education by throwing away their skills and doing unrelated work for some oil drilling company or a stock broker.
Economic realities of today’s India can’t be ignored and one can’t be a hermit and work on a theoretical computer science problem at Rs 4000 per month. But a better compromise is possible and I think the media needs to highlight better role models - people who take good care of themselves, create job opportunities for others as well and do something for the advancement of technology.
I’m sure most reasonable people will see that it’s the advancement of technology that holds the key to true economic success - not low cost IT outsourcing or financial engineering.
In India, there are only two market segments: there is the “normal” segment, which is cheap and what most people use. And then there is “value based pricing” i.e. if you want something slightly better than normal, you pay a big premium (such as $500 a night hotel).
I’m sure there are people smart enough to recognize this big void in the middle. One exception to this are the “A1 plazas” (Reliance gas stations with paid toilets and Rs 100 lunch) I found along many highways in northern India.
A few observations from a visiting NRI:
Repetition: many many channels just sound like 24×7 headline news channels. They pick up on one or two “larger than life” stories (eg: Sanjay Dutt’s verdict) and keep repeating the thing over and over again. Even panel discussions (MBA salaries) get repeated.
